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  • WorldAssociated Press

    China publicizes for the first time what it claims is a 2016 agreement with Philippines

    For the first time, China has publicized what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands. The move threatens to further raise tensions in the disputed waterway, through which much of the world's trade passes and which China claims virtually in its entirety. A statement from the Chinese Embassy in Manila said the “temporary special arrangement” agreed to during a visit to Beijing by former president Rodrigo Duterte allowed small scale fi

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  • BusinessSnopes

    Fact Check: Theodore Roosevelt Supposedly Posed for Photo with Last Known Triceratops. Here Are the Facts

    The black-and-white photo appeared to show the former U.S. President standing over a lifeless dinosaur.

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  • BusinessPeople

    78-Year-Old Receptionist Was an Employee of the Year Before Getting Fired. Now Ex-Employer Is Paying Her $78K

    In February 2022, Shirley Noble was fired from her receptionist job at a retirement community in Georgia

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them

    It was Election Day last November, and one of Georgia’s top election officials saw that reports of a voting machine problem in an eastern Pennsylvania county were gaining traction online. “It’s still the right thing to do,” Sterling told a gathering the following day, stressing the importance of Republican officials speaking up to defend elections. Sterling, the chief operating officer for the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, is part of an effort begun after the last presidential election

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  • BusinessBarrons.com

    The Rules for RMDs Are Complicated. They Have Changed Yet Again.

    If you have inherited retirement assets, have a Roth 401(k) or want to give retirement money to charity, you may be impacted by tweaks to this year’s rules for RMDs.

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  • USCNN

    Kenan Thompson is supportive of college protests as long as they don’t involve his daughter in ‘SNL’ cold open

    “Saturday Night Live” took on one of the top news stories of the past week on its latest episode, when cast members played concerned parents of New York City college kids involved in protests in the cold open over the weekend.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Lawyers for teen suing NBA star Ja Morant over a fight during a pickup game withdraw from the case

    Lawyers for a teenager who is suing two-time NBA All-Star Ja Morant over a fight during an offseason pickup game can withdraw from the case after citing irreconcilable conflicts with their client, a Tennessee judge ruled Friday. Rebecca Adelman and Leslie Ballin had filed a motion in Shelby County Circuit Court asking a judge to allow them to withdraw from the lawsuit filed by Joshua Holloway against Morant, who hosted a daylong series of pickup games at his parents' home in July 2022 that ende

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